Paul Mueller Company announced the retirement of Mel Volmert from the Board of Directors during the company's recent annual meeting. Volmert had served on the board since 2001.

“I have enjoyed my time on the board with Mel and appreciated his expertise on the audit committee. Mel was instrumental in recruiting Curtis Dinan to continue his work,” says John Ghirardelli, the chairman of the board.

The company will reduce the number of directors from seven to six and change the seat of Lee Viorel, a Class III Director, to a Class II seat up for election in 2017.

Paul Mueller Company is headquartered in Springfield, Missouri, with manufacturing and sales operations in Iowa, The Netherlands and Vietnam. Paul Mueller Company products and services are part of the daily lives of people in over 100 countries. Paul Mueller employees build innovative processing equipment for dairy farms and a wide variety of other applications in food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and chemical facilities worldwide. For more information, visit www.paulmueller.com.